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Personally I haven't seen any hard evidence of deliberate and malicious trolling on TVF. Not to say that there hasn't been any at all,.. just saying it appears very limited and in other cases some of the "antagonistic" remarks are either innocent or intended in good humor IMO.

Unlike on Youtube where the trolling is in epic proportions. I recently was harangued by some guy in the UK that made a semi-hostile remark on one of my comments. I countered it and we had a little debate in which I politely established some facts even though he was cussing and calling me all the vile names possible. I thought it ended on an even note but then only days later he commented on a separate thread and again calling names and criticizing my opinion and making personal jibes.

This continued to a point when I realized that this guy was a sociopath and derived great delight from arguing with and berating and harassing other people. I checked into all his recent comments and all had been responses he had made to other peoples comments and all were antagonistic and hostile. Not one comment was from him directly expressing an opinion or making any contribution.

After doing a little Googling I found out how to block him in both YT and G+ as well as being able to delete any comments on comment threads I had started. Since then all has been quite on the western front.

The best advice is to not feed the trolls and as soon as you encounter one, either leave the "conversation" or block or report abuse and dont play their game any more.

Peace on guys!

"if the ex-premier met him in person at the Dusit Thani Hotel, which is near the main protest site at Lumpini Park.

But he didn't think Thaksin would dare to return to Thailand for such a meeting and risk being arrested after being convicted and sentenced to two years' jail for abuse of power.

"So the door for talks should be considered shut," Suthep said"

Now I'll bet Thaksin would be more than willing to meet him for a chat in Dubai,... but I doubt Suthep's got the balls for that!

"Now they are sitting idly at home with even no rice to eat but wait and wait for money from the government."

Meanwhile,.. the government rice mills are overrun with millions of tons of rice that's going bad and no-one (internationally) wants!

.... what's wrong with this picture?

April 27 is way too late to be holding the election.

Hold it right smack dab in the middle of Songran week and then it'll be a lot more fun and less likelihood for violence because everyone is in a happy mood,..and if there is any violence it can be confined to throwing water bombs and firing water cannons from the back of pick up trucks!

Suthep seeks postponement of indictment

... "Please wait until I am president and then the matter can be dealt with properly!"

"The monk interrogated the policemen until they admitted they were undercover cops"

So,.. is this monk the Thai version of our western Televison evangelist preachers,... all talk and no substance?

Has anyone heard the addage that when gold rises the dollar falls.

When China was rising something had to fall.

The 3% who own 85% are never effected.

Australia sold the farm years ago and still are, what little is left.

My mother used, to work for Bonds. Do you remember them? Underwear, sox, singlets, etc.

One day she came home and said they are closing tomorrow and have never been seen since.

Australia needs to start producing or she is lost forever.

"My mother used, to work for Bonds. Do you remember them?"

Sure do,.. they used to have a factory on Pittwater Rd I think it was (Brookvale/Dee Why) that had a giant sized icon of the Aussie bloke wearing the Chesty Bonds singlet. At least I think that's where it was... either way.. I'm showing my age now eh?

I am extremely surprised that these hoax website aren't sued and shut down.

This is disgusting and a pathetic parasitical way in which to make money.

The creepy part is that these reports and the energy that is attached to them can have and have had fatal consequences. They pulled this stunt on Phillip Seymour Hoffman and he was dead within the week.

The $hite that people are willing to put up with all for the sake of "entertainment",... what a sick world it is we live in!!!

Merit making, not enough days left in his natural life to make up for what he has done to Thailand and its people.

Hear, Hear! And the sooner the people realise the better

He could easily atone for past sins by giving back all the money he stole from Thailand and apologising for past errors and personally motivated acts of greed,..and then he could after that make merit.

In fact, if he gave back all the cash, said sorry and then shaved his head and went into the monastery for a month that should do it!

I know lots of people in America who give 10 percent of all of their income to cults that promises them eternal life in a place they call "heaven" if they follow the rules of this entity they call "god". Every moment of their lives is devoted to making this "god" happy and following the rules of their cult, but still he does horrible things to them and their friends.

They also believe that the earth was created a few thousand years ago despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

They think that anyone that doesn't agree with them will burn in horrible pain for eternity in this place they call "hell". This punishment is decided upon by their "loving god".

One of their cult members was recently president of the USA and another was defeated by Obama just a short time ago so it's a pretty widespread psychosis.

It's not just America,.. its widespread, and whilst I don't subcribe to you atheistic beliefs I can say with some authority that a vast majority of the mainstream Christian churches to this day promote the "tithe" and insist upon it as a prerequisite to church membership and yes they even link it to salvation and heavenly glories. This is particulalry relevant in the cult you refer to in making the Romney reference.

This is a false and erroneous practice and nothing more than a ruse and manipulation to extract money from "believers". The sad part is that if these believers truly understood scripture and history they would see that the tithe is not only unecessary but is totally against the principles of the promises made in the New Testament (New Covenant).

Not that I'm going to get into religous discussion but I just couldn't let your broad comment and opinion about "psychosis" go unchecked without at least providing some perspective. Some of your points were directed at the said "cult" but others spilled over into the broader Christian perspective which is not really justifiable despite your apparent enthusiasm for atheism!

Not all TV members are atheists and not all are religious nuts but please at least have some respect for the beliefs and education of others before jumping on your unbeliver's soapbox and labeling us all as "psychotic"

I call her brainwashed because she refuses to believe she has been conned. She doesn't want to go to the police.

I kinda forced her to go to the police and she's going with her father right now, against her own will.

She believes she did something very good - related to her last life with that guy.

It's like she is in sect.

This guy made her so crazy that I am afraid she might give even more money (and maybe land) to him, that's why I (and her parents) are trying to prevent that.

We are married for 13 years, never had any problem, never lost any money to religion or superstition, fortune tellers and so on.

I asked her parents for advice. Her parents are rich. They think 200K is just a bit of money. They think it's a small problem and suggest to just leave it.

Her father ever has been conned for 6 million, but that case was not related to strange beliefs.

Her parents also understand she has been brainwashed and conned, they can't bring her to reason either.

She refuses to go to a psychiatrist, she says she's not mad.

I see this quite simply;

Your wife was taken in by a very sharp confidence trickster who primed her for this fall/hit with every structured meeting and conversation with her. He evidently understood the power of superstitious beliefs and played on that.

Her insistence that she has not been conned is simply denial and an unwillingness to lose face.

This is where you need to be the man and reprimand her severely for being so stupid and gullible and throwing away the family fortunes. If it causes argument and hostiility between you then thats just the way it has to be. Let her know you are TOTALLY pi$$ed about this and point out that she has been "had" for dinner by a professional!

A couple of years ago we were selling our home. We'd been trying for over a year to get a reasonable price of 3.8m but no offers and no interest. Then suddenly, my wife excitedly tells me she has sold the house for full asking price to a guy introduced by a friend.

I was kept in the dark about the details as she knew I was suspicious and she didn't want my negativity to "spook" the deal.

Long story short,.. this guy (the generous foreign buyer) was a Nigerian scammer she met on Facebook who posed as an English engineer.

She had to come to me as things started to conclude and part of the deal was that the "papers" for the transaction were to be delivered by a private courier as the guy didnt trust the banks. Of course I knew what was up and I told my wife that she had been conned by this "nice" English guy who she had never met and never spoken to.

At this point she was still insistant that it was a "done deal" and that I was being "negative",.. so I told her to get the guy on the phone under the guise of discussing the detail. Well,.. she gets this guy "Matt" on the phone on speakerphone and he has the thickest African accent ever! I was born and raised in UK and can pick accents from all over the UK with some accuracy,.. and this guy was definatley not English. When I prompted her to ask him about his birthplace (London) and about the weather in London he made huge errors on each.

So the bottom line is that through this process I proved conclusively that this was a set up,... but even so, for about 2 or 3 days later she couldn't accept that this was a set up and that I must be wrong.

That was the point when I went off my nut ranting and raving and calling her a complete idiot and telling her off for placing the family's finances in jepoardy. I had to go over all the details and deconstructed the entire "conversation" for her by unravelling everything that had occured on Facebook. Finally after about 2 days she broke down crying and said how she was so sorry for being so foolish and that she finally knew that this guy was a crook.

The point is that it wasn't easy to make her see what she had fallen victim to and how costly it could have been.

At least we didnt lose a cent but in your case losing 200K is just terrible. For that reason alone you need to make her see sense and of course make sure she doesn't have access to huge wads of money as she did or that will just provide opportunity for similar occurances in the future.

If I were you I would contact the fraud division of the Royal Thai Police and get them involved!

Isnt there some law in australia about a gay couple living together raisinf children? Without a mother. I am sure a mother has first custody rights. So isnt it possible they may send the children back to thailand to the mother?

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Custody rights are generally decided upon by a court or by a legal document that both parties have agreed to. It appears that the attendant legalities have been careful considered by these young men.

One thing I can tell you is that there is no law in Australia that prevents women from raising children without the presence of a father. In fact, the Family Court of Australia is highly in favor of promoting it even to the extent that it will issue custody orders which include the excommunication of the father from the family (been there,. done that and got the scars to prove it!).

Children nowadays are being raised in some very strange and completely unorthodox family environments so this scenario of two gay men becoming parents isn't that far removed from what is going on anyway in the world in many varied ways.

If it's OK for women (many who are less than well balanced) to be raising kids on their own then why not these young men who seem bright and intelligent and committed to family principles despite their sexual orientation?

Let's not forget that the process of these two children coming into the world did not violate God's science in that the egg of a woman was fertilized by seed of a man and incubated in the womb of a woman.

Ethics are a different issue and one in which there will always be conjecture depending on culture, religion and personal opinion and bias.

I wish the best for these two young men and their children and hope they all live a happy and blessed life together!

"Go ahead,.. start to choke!"

_{His dearest home and yet he tries to undermine Thailands freedom.}

_{kick him out never to return!}

So what is it that the protesters that he sided with are doing?,.... also "undermining Thailand's freedom"?

The difference between this man and those he sided with is that he is not legally a Thai citizen,.. but apart from that there's no difference!

Guys,.. look, just give him a break.

Everything's on the up and up here,.... this 52 rai plot of land is where he's going to build the new PDRC government house!

Time for Yingluck and the PTP to just drop the tablet program.

Just come out and say something like "We had the best of intentions with both the Free Tablet policy and the Rice Pledging Scheme but they were both mistakes and so we are dropping both programs effective immediately"!

He constantly outwits the dull government.

All Yingluck can say is the word ' democracy' , Surapong and Paraodon sit looking glum, Plodprasop has disappeared' and as for the fearless Dr Chalerm- plainly, he's enjoying his war of words with Suthep to compete for the most broken deadlines.

Yeah,.. whatever happened to Plodprasop?

... Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen!

Great to see that a doctor paid attention and was open minded enough to follow his intuition that this real case could in fact be similar to the fictitious case already solved by Dr House!

Suggestions for penalties in such matters!

1. A 5 million baht fine to the freight company
2. A mandatory inspection of facilities and vehicles and safety policies of the freight company
3. A 200,000 baht fine for driver, plus loss of license plus 6 months jail time

Something along those lines should have some effect.

R.I.P. to the victim and condolences to the family!

This article is incorrect.

Suthep is set to become the first Thai to go into space.

Rumor has it that when Yingluck is finally ousted that he'll be over the moon!

A good and informative article from the Nation.

At least this gives some clear view to the path ahead and a definite date (April 1st) by which something new will happen.

What an ironic coincidence that the due date happens to be April Fools Day!

He had a chance before. He is a pussy cat.

He "was" a pussycat. A complete greenhorn to government and top level politics but since then has had his baptism of fire and has learned much.

IMHO he is about the best shot Thailand has at having a good, strong and internationally capable and respected leader!

We're contemplating a move because our landlord has sold the house.

Its an inconvenience and a bother to think of moving but at least we have the luxury of going peacefully and finding something nice elsewhere.

I can only imagine how stressful it would be to think that an opposing force could come and turf you out of your home at any time of day or night and/or burn it down and even kill you without anyone so much as batting an eyelid!

Very sad,... the authorities and governments of the region should be ashamed of themselves. I don't see any sign of the blue beret UN making any moves to protect these people either.

Some things in this world just totally suck!